Carbureter.



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UNITED STATES PATENT mrEIoE.,`

CHARLES O.,WILLIAMS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FEDERAL GAS COMPANY, OF vST. LOUIS` MISSOURI, A -CORPORATION oF THEDISTRICT oF COLUMBIA.

CAR'BURETER.

Patented Oct. 30, 1906.

Application filed April 19, 1906. Serial No. 312,527.

To all whom n1115 'may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES O. WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oarbureters, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to gas-machines, and especially to carbureters, and it has for its principa objects to accelerate the vaporizationof oil, to accelerate the carburetmg aotion, and to attain other objects hereinafter more fully appearing.

My nvention consists ln the partsand in the arrangements and combinations of parts l and` of the oi -feed pipe and steam-pipe.

The body of the carbureter is a cylindrical tank l. Across the u per end of this tank extends a flexible diapfiragm 2, which is protected from the contents of the tank by means of a disk-shaped shielding late or partition 3. The end of the tank is c osed by a dome-shaped head 4, whose margin is bolted to lan angle-iron 5, fixed in the up er end of the tank, with the margin ofthe iaphragm and of the shielding-partition clamped be- .tween the head and the angle-iron.

The tank is provided with an air-inlet pipe 6 at its lower portion, an outlet-pipe 7 at its upper portion, and a pressure equalizing pipe 8, communicating with the space between the diaphragm and it shielding-partition. The tank is also provided inits upper portion with an oil-pipe 9,whch terminates directly above a vertically-arranged ortion of a heating-pipe 10, whereby the oi delivered from the oil-pipe will trickle down the outside of the heating-pipe and be vaporized by the heat thereof.

Any suitable heating system may be used; but it is preferable to have the heating-pipe 10 connected to the exhaust-steam pipe of the engine and to have connected thereto an titions 12 mounted therein.

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enlarged drum 11, which may be conveniently located in the lower portion of the tank 1. This drum 11 is of slightly smaller diameter than the diameter of the tank and is mounted concentric with the tank, whereby an annular s ace intervenes between them. The side of t e heating-drum l1 is extended above the top thereof and with the top of the heating-drum forms a receptacle for catching any oil that may drip onto it.

he portion of the tank above the heatingdrum has a series of horizontal lates or arach of t ese plates has an upturned iiange and a marginal ole 13. Each plate is mounted so that its marginal hole is at a considerable annular distance from the marginal hole of the next adjacent plates above it and below it. erably such marginal holes are arranged diametrically opposite each other. By this arrangement a continuous tortuous passage is formed from the air-s ace surrounding the heating-drum t0 the (fieliveryipe near the top of the tank. The spaces etween adj acent loose y-packed filler 14, which will permit the passage of air therethrough. Each plate has a large number of smaller holes 20 formed therein, which tend to effect a greater distri- All of the partition-plates below the point of admission of the heating-pipe have central holes 15 therein, and through these alined holes extends the heating-pipe. Resting upon the edge of each of these central holes and surrounding the heatingi e is a funnel I6, arranged to catch any oilpth) ing-pipe or otherwise be delivered into it.

T e operation of the device is as follows: The heating-drum and the heating-pipe kare heated from any suitable source-as, for instance, bythe exhaust-steam of the pumpengine. The oil is delivered in measured quantitiesI through the oil-pipe 9 directly onto the heating-pipe, and air from any suitable source of pressure, such as an air-pump, is forced through the inlet-pipe 6, through the tank, and into the outlet-pipe 7. The oil delivered onto the lheating-pipe is rapidly vaporized as it trickles down on the outside of said pipe. Any excess of oil that may not be vaporized is caught in the receptacle at the top of the heating-drum, where it re- Prefat may spatter from the heatlates are lled with excelsior or other IOO mains until it is vaporized. The vapor generated around the heating -pipe escapes through the iiaring funnels into the spaces j corresponding to the respective funnels, and

the iiller in said sp aces becomes charged therewith. During this continuous vaporization of the oil the air is continuously circulating through the annular space surrounding the heating-drum and through the long tortuous passage formed by the connecting-sp aces between the partition-plates, and during this circulation it becomes intimately miXed and charged with the vapor and passes out into the outlet-pipe 7 as an inflammable gas.

Obviously my deviceadmits of' 'considerable modification within the scope of my invention, and therefore I do not wish to be limited to the speciiic construction shown and described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A carbureter comprising a tank, a series of transversely-arranged plates having holes therein, a heating-pipe extending through said holes, oil-funnels surrounding said heating-pipe, and an oil-feed arranged to deliver oil onto said heating-pipe, said tank having an air-inlet in its lower portion and an outlet in its upper portion, said plates having marginal holes arranged to constitute a tortuous passage through said tank. f

2. A carbureter comprising a tank having inlet and outlet pipes, a series of transverselyarranged plates therein each having a marginal hole arranged at a considerable distance from the holes of the adjacent plates, some of said plates also having alined holes therein, oil-unnels i mounted in said lastmentioned holes, a heating-pipe inside of said oil-tunnels, a heating-drum in the bottom portion of said tank and communicating with said heating-pipe, and an oil-feed pipe arranged to deliver oil in the topmost funnel.

3. A carbureter comprising a tank having inlet and outlet pipes, Va series of transversely-arranged plates ltherein each having a marginal hole arrranged at a considerable distance from the holes of the adjacent plates, some of said plates also having alined holes therein, oil-funnels mounted in said last-inentioned holes, a heating-pipe inside of said oil-funnels, a heating-drum in the bottom portion of said tank and communicating with said heating-pipe, and an oil-feed pipe arranged to deliver oil in the topmost funnel,

said plates having smaller holes therein and the spaces between said plates being filled with loose material.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 28th day of March, 1906, at St. Louis, Missouri.

CHARLES O. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

WM. M. CADY, J. B. MEGOWN. 

